As briefly mentioned in my first post, this intro class importantly exposed me to new tools to help untangle webs of causes and effects, actions and reactions, processes and outcomes. How do these all play out in reality? Obviously processes don’t pan out in a linear fashion, as characterized by the “Facts & Action” framework we learned about […]
If You Build It, They Will Come… destroy it and build something else
My confusion and disillusionment with consumer and “awareness” raising based modes of change has been a long time coming, although I have dabbled in these complacency-inducing actions. Increasingly, especially given that not everyone has the time and money to make such lifestyle changes, I’ve grown frustrated. I just can’t see any examples or evidence of its […]
A Fourth Connection Would Be “Hope”
Technophilia Situation at the technophilia end of this spectrum is reflected in contemporary environmental thought. This perspective is evident in Making the Modern World by Vaclav Smil and Love Your Monsters by Bruno Latour. These texts both comment on how must follow through with our commitments to that we produce, and honor our abilities to create solutions. According to […]
Brain Tools
I came to Lewis & Clark entirely unsure of my major, and always kind of figured Environmental Studies would be the one I could fall back on if my other possibilities, math and SOAN, ended up not grabbing me. A part of me hoped I had time to figure it out, and that the obvious […]
Portlanders Agree: The Climate, it is a-Changin’
by Grace Boyd, Kiaora Motson, and Hannah Schandelmeier-Lynch. Introduction Climate change continues to be a pressing issue and hot topic, present on the minds of many Americans and individuals across the globe. To uncover the range and source of different opinions on climate change in Portland, our group, Grace Boyd, Kiaora Motson, and Hannah Schandelmeier-Lynch, […]